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Locative Media/Arts Workshop 2004 |
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pARTicipate!This workshop is of interest to anyone seeking to explore ways of generating new data and ways of envisioning & representing it, as well as investigating how the new & emerging media & technologies can be leveraged to generate new forms & aesthetics. This means it could be of interest to urban planners, entrepreneurs, programmers, journalists, cartographers, environmentalists, social workers, social researchers, artists, designers, technologists… to name only a few. |
Srishti School of Art Design and Technology conducting an international workshop using Locative Media starting 5th January 2005. This workshop is part of the strategic direction that Srishti has articulated for itself in working at the intersections of new media (and technologies), participative design and contextual learning. It will form the beginning of a prolonged immersion in the ideas that emerge from this first initiation into actual practical work using the technologies in different ways.
Approach & ConceptDuring the period January 5th to the 21st 2005 we aim to bring together a group of artists, technologists and new media designers from many different countries to work with 120 students and faculty on 10 projects that will form the basis of these initiatives. We do hope that you will join us in this endeavor and become one of our partners - not only in the workshops but also in taking the learning from the workshop forward.
This definition, which can be found on any web site on locative media, gives an idea of the purpose that drives our workshop. Srishti would like to engage with ideas of cultural geographies, oral and narrative histories, information visualization and participative design pedagogies in conjunction with new media and in particular the positioning technologies. Our endeavour is to move talking to learning through immersion and actual field experimentation. Project IdeasGiven below is a list of projects which are to be read as indicative of the nature of the inquiry planned. However, these are still under discussion & development with the resource persons leading the workshops.
We would like draw up a list of around 12-15 projects which provide a rich area for collaborative cartography and contextual learning, and eventually filter down to four or five umbrella projects that have the potential to be taken much beyond the three-week workshop timeframe via collaborative projects. Resource PersonsWe have a list of people from India and abroad who have indicated that they would like to participate in this workshop. They represent a wide range of interests from artists to hackers.
Nature and Structure of the workshopThe workshop will be of three weeks duration and will start on January 5th and end of January 21st 2005.The idea at the moment is to work at two levels - an expert and a novice level. The three weeks will be organised as “Teach/Train - Research - Visualize/Publish” modules, each lasting approximately one week. It is hoped that at the end of the workshop two or three strands of work will get translated into large scale collaborative projects. |
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